[libvirt-users] Import/Export Support

[Justin Clift]

On 09/29/2010 01:44 AM, Mitchell Hashimoto wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking into using libvirt in the near future, however an important part
> of our workflow is the ability to import and export virtual machines (in
> VirtualBox). Does libvirt provide an easy way to do this? I couldn't find
> anything obvious on the API reference.

Hi Mitchell,

We don't have an easy API-level way of doing this (yet).  My
understanding is people still manually call external utilities for
doing the on-disk image conversions, then use the converted images.

The two tools of interest to you will probably be:

   * VBoxManage
   * qemu-img

Hope that's helpful. :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


> Thanks,
> Mitchell